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Lilliputian hallucinations concern hallucinated human, animal or fantasy entities of minute size. They have been reported anecdotally for millennia however, in the 1960s while the number of medical publications on lilliputian hallucinations had dwindled, young people became fascinated with records of ancient shamanic traditions and expressed a longing to encounter the sentient, discarnate beings described after the use of psychedelics<ref>The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching, Terence Mckenna, published in 1993, ISBN 0062506358</ref>. | Lilliputian hallucinations concern hallucinated human, animal or fantasy entities of minute size. They have been reported anecdotally for millennia however, in the 1960s while the number of medical publications on lilliputian hallucinations had dwindled, young people became fascinated with records of ancient shamanic traditions and expressed a longing to encounter the sentient, discarnate beings described after the use of psychedelics<ref>The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching, Terence Mckenna, published in 1993, ISBN 0062506358</ref>. | ||
A modern retrospective analysis of scientific data shows descriptions of the ‘fly-agaric men’ and ‘amanita girls’ evoked by the mushroom Amanita muscaria show striking similarities to Leroy’s lilliputian hallucinations<ref>The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances, Richard Rudgley, St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014, ISBN: 1466886005</ref>. The same holds true for Chinese descriptions of xiao ren ren (‘lots of little people’), prompted by the consumption of undercooked blue-staining boletes<ref>Xiao Ren Ren : The “Little People” of Yunnan, November 2008Economic Botany 62(3):540-544, DOI:10.1007/s12231-008-9049-0</ref>. | |||
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